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He matriculated at Street Mary Hall, Oxford in 1600, and graduated Master of Arts
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Peter Turner
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At Christ Church, Oxford in 1605. He became a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford in 1607. He gave public lectures as professor of geometry at Gresham College, London from 1620 to 1630.
He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1631 to 1649.
In 1641 he enlisted in the royalist forces of John Byron, 1st Baron Byron. Taken prisoner in an early skirmish of the First English Civil War, near Stow-on-the-Wold, he was eventually released in 1643 in a prisoner exchange.
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England